Last year we welcomed two new eager members at Friends of the Rail, and another one younger member who often is seen around railway line/s, yard/s and depots. They have shown the interest in what FotR is busy with, and they now have also offered their services to assist with preparing and lighting-up and preparing of our locomotives.
We welcome Jaco Nieuwenhuis, Philip Snyman and James Lee Attwell as trainee firelighters. We hope they keep raising steam for FotR, and we wish them all of the best!
Photos and Captions by Gabor Kovacs - March 2013.
Caption: Class 19D - 2650 being prepared for light-up for the 3rd March Cullinan Diamond Expess.
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Caption ; Active volunteers Philip Snyman (left) and Jaco Nieuwenhuis (right) eager to start their very first fire-lightning experience . . .
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Caption: with the fire lit and burning in 2650, the trainee firelighters get the books out to do some revision of the books at hand . . . .
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Caption: Another theoretical training session at Hermanstad with the trainee firelighters . . .
(Left) James Attwell, Jaco Nieuwenhuis (right) and Philip Snyman (far right)
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Welcome guys and lets keep those fires burning.
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Well done guys! Thanks. Welcome into the fold! That's the start, but all that determination and hard graft will pay off when you qualify at the top.
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Welcome, gentlemen. It's hard work and takes a lot of commitment, doing some pretty tough and boring things as well as the more exciting ones, but it's well worth it in the end.